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Enrollment
1,847
High
DISTRICT 719 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD·NCES 362577003543
SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL
1 BLUE STREAK BLVD, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866 · (518) 587-6690 · Saratoga County
GRADES 09–12HIGH23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,847 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of New York public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
144 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
519 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 467 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 442 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 487 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 427 | 23% |
| Ungraded | 24 | 1% |
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
93.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
70.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.0% | 70.0% |
| 2023-24 | 93.0% | 80.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
79.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL
SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (79.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,847 | 28.1% | 79.3% |
| LANCASTER HIGH SCHOOL LANCASTER | 1,682 | 26.8% | 81.7% |
| WEST GENESEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CAMILLUS | 1,385 | 27.1% | 73.0% |
| VICTOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL VICTOR | 1,319 | 26.2% | 78.0% |
| HILTON HIGH SCHOOL HILTON | 1,358 | 24.2% | 82.3% |
| WEBSTER-SCHROEDER HIGH SCHOOL WEBSTER | 1,337 | 31.0% | 76.8% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Saratoga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.3% | #192 of 1,135 | #4 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #266 of 1,109 ▼ 49 | #6 of 11 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #123 of 1,135 ▲ 67 | #1 of 11 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,847 | #57 of 1,216 | #2 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #813 of 1,058 | #9 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.1% | #814 of 1,070 | #2 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.1% | #1,008 of 1,167 | #9 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.9% | #350 of 743 | #3 of 8 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,847
-140 (-7%) vs 2020
+46% since 1990-91, when it was 1,269
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 12.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,847 | 144.4 | 12.8:1 | 28% (519) |
| 2023-24 | 1,871 | 144.4 | 13.0:1 | 27% (500) |
| 2022-23 | 1,947 | 146.4 | 13.3:1 | 26% (500) |
| 2020-21 | 1,987 | 158 | 12.6:1 | 22% (442) |
| 2017-18 | 2,121 | 136 | 15.6:1 | 18% (384) |
| 2015-16 | 2,168 | 137 | 15.8:1 | 19% (406) |
| 2010-11 | 2,119 | 153 | 13.8:1 | 14% (297) |
| 2000-01 | 1,555 | 89 | 17.5:1 | 9% (135) |
| 1990-91 | 1,269 | 90 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL.
About SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL
SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York, is home to SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL, a large high school. The school enrolls 1,847 students in grades 9 through 12. Across high schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 668.
SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD includes 8 schools. Together they enroll 5,750 students.
SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is 84% White by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian, and 2% Black. That is in line with Saratoga County, where about 88% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL scores 27%.
Its staff includes 144.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 12.8 students per teacher. Compared with the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York, this school's ratio is higher. Roughly 28% of students at SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Saratoga County is close, at 30%.
SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 81% of New York public high schools.
The model predicts 64.7% for a school in New York with SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL posts 79.3%.
The county, Saratoga County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $100,787 a year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. The county has 50 public schools and about 30,097 students.
About 0.6 miles separate SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL from the closest public school, DIVISION STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Within five miles are 7 other public schools. On average proficiency, SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is 1st of 9 nearby schools with test data.
SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels Suburb: Small.
The school's student count decreased 7% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Saratoga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
238,284
Census ACS
Median income
$100,787
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
30,097 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD
- MAPLE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,426 students
- DOROTHY NOLAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 616 students
- DIVISION STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 393 students
- LAKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 382 students
- GREENFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 377 students
- CAROLINE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 372 students
Other schools in SARATOGA SPRINGS
- MAPLE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,426 students
- DOROTHY NOLAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 616 students
- DIVISION STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 393 students
- LAKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 382 students
- CAROLINE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 372 students
- GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 337 students
Nearby schools
- DIVISION STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 393
- LAKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 382
- CAROLINE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 372
- GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 337
- MAPLE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL2.7 mi · 1,426
- DOROTHY NOLAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 616
Frequently asked questions
About SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL?
SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,847 students in grades 09-12.
Is SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 12.8:1 (144 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL?
At SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 84% White, 6% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL?
SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD in Saratoga County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.